Well, a long overdue rack reorganization finally happened last night. Karl was kind enough to drop in and help me move my equipment around. This all started back last summer when I realized that my gear was too tightly spaced in the rack, causing the amps to run a bit hot. This was due to the overly short interconnect cables (18″ cables are not long enough).<\/p>\n
Step 1 – Build some cables. I referenced the Jon Risch<\/a> website on cables. So based on this I picked up some Belden 89259 from Take Five Audio<\/a> and some locking RCA connectors from Parts Connexion<\/a> (WBT style knock-offs).<\/p>\n Step 2 – Procrastinate for about 5 months, then finally solder together some 1m cables.<\/p>\n Step 3 – Shuffle the components in the rack.<\/p>\n Getting past the second step was the hardest part. Both online stores were great to deal with, and I’ll buy from them again. The cheap locking RCAs I might pass on next time – some of the threads on the screw down barrels were not very accurate, making some connectors difficult to tighten. Locking RCAs are a great idea – even a strong tug won’t make them slip off.<\/p>\n While I was at it, I also put together some 3.5mm mono plug cables to chain my pre-amp\/processor to my amps so that I could use the 12v trigger. This is pretty slick as I can now effectively remote on\/off my power amps (well, not the sub amp but it doesn’t have a trigger input).<\/p>\n After we were done, we watched Hero.\u00c2\u00a0 Along with the noise in the image, I’ve been noticing that my convergence has a wobble to it.\u00c2\u00a0 During a movie, the convergence will go slightly out of alignment, then back to perfectly fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly this isn’t noticible, but you see it on credits or sub-titles more easily.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked on the AVSForum<\/a> and it seems that it may be my HVPS getting hot (or worse).\u00c2\u00a0 So after the movie, I pulled the case open and felt the HVPS case – it was pretty hot, so maybe some improved cooling will help resolve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, a long overdue rack reorganization finally happened last night. Karl was kind enough to drop in and help me move my equipment around. This all started back last summer when I realized that my gear was too tightly spaced in the rack, causing the amps to run a bit hot. This was due to … Continue reading “Amp shuffle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ampro-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}